Reflection
For our reflection it can be found in the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zZ0486eclfkmul8yVpBSHTApLzxesd5qF8v_N_qzBmk/edit?usp=sharing
Personal Growth: what strengths and weaknesses did you learn about yourself? How are you different now?
The strength I learned about myself would be the acceptance of ideas and of feedback. I feel that feedback has been very important to developing my understanding of projects, especially when it involves a community member that will use such a product. This helped me evaluate the pros and cons of our ideas and think more methodical in a way to fasten the pace too at times.
Unfortunately, I realized that my personal weakness was the management of injury. I found that having certain accidents happen to my wrist will affect my productivity and possible contribution to the theme. It caused me to reflect a lot on what I could do to support in a way that I could do so without having it affect the usage of my hand.
I’m different in the sense that I’m more methodical, thinking about how I can contribute despite being physically limited.
Civic Engagement: what did you learn about the approaches of working on a project? For example, teamwork, communication, understanding needs, etc.
From this project I learned about the usefulness of communication and understanding teammates. I feel that understanding my team is the first and most important step of the process where we can know how and why our team member’s feel certain ways as well as consider the course of action when knowing this. I feel that when we understood what each other said, our communication became very good, allowing for us to decide things quickly while being logical to analyze the pros and cons of designs.
Academic Learning: where did the community experience align or not align with the academic content? What have you learned as a result?
I realized that practicality is the most important aspect of providing services to a community where we have to give up some of our own preferences/ideas in order to provide services to the community. While we provide services to the community, we still learn within the process, especially in consideration to recycling material and redeveloping material. What’s truly important is understanding the interpersonal relations between you and the community and make sure that what you learn can positively impact you.
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